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  • Writer: We Have to Ditch Free Speech Because Trump Won

    Writer: We Have to Ditch Free Speech Because Trump Won0

    In a recent opinion piece in Slate, titled “The Kids are Right: There’s Nothing Outrageous about Stamping out Bigoted Speech,” Osita Nwanevu argues that in the age of Trump student activists should be permitted to dictate who speaks on college campuses. Shutting down speakers like Charles Murray at Middlebury College and Milo Yiannopoulos at UC

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  • Writer: Charlie Gard Tragedy Shows Why We Need Single-Payer Health Care

    Writer: Charlie Gard Tragedy Shows Why We Need Single-Payer Health Care0

    Many of us continue to watch the tragedy of young Charlie Gard with a sick blend of sadness, anger, and pure horror. For those who don’t know, Charlie is an 11-month old infant suffering in a London hospital from a genetic disease. His parents raised $1.7 million to fight the illness, and had made plans

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  • Wrestling With Justice in the Midst of Sorrow and Loss

    Wrestling With Justice in the Midst of Sorrow and Loss0

    One year ago, I lost a friend, a good man who was driven to his untimely death by the wicked words and deeds of people determined to ruin his life if they could. People who loathed him—without knowing him in any meaningful human way—simply because he disagreed with their beliefs about political, cultural, and philosophical matters. It

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  • Wow… This Chart Shows Just How Much the U.S. Rural Population Has Declined

    Wow… This Chart Shows Just How Much the U.S. Rural Population Has Declined0

    • September 1, 2015

    Chart source: U.S. Census Bureau Keep in mind, too, that at the time of the American Revolution, 95% of Americans lived in rural areas. Here are the census numbers going back to 1790: My, how things have changed… Save this article to favorites

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  • Wow… Only 28% of Parents Require Their Children to do Chores

    Wow… Only 28% of Parents Require Their Children to do Chores1

    The other day the Washington Post ran an article entitled “The baffling reason many millennials don’t eat cereal.” Not being a fan of cereal myself, I clicked on it to see if other millennials shared my disinterest in the common breakfast food. Au contraire. Millennials like cereal… it’s just the washing of a bowl and

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  • Wow! This College’s Curriculum is VERY Impressive!

    Wow! This College’s Curriculum is VERY Impressive!0

    If you’re going to focus on the liberal arts in college, you might as well do it right. St. John’s College in Annapolis and Santa Fe is one of those places where you can “do it right.” They offer a program that “immerses students in reading great books and in lively and unmediated conversation with

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